„In the garden of our hotel, the breakfast table is filled with ful, which is a paste of cooked fava beans, freshly fried falafel, and crunchy pita bread. I sit and take a look around. The Cheops Pyramid – the largest and eldest of the three pyramids of Gizeh – is located half a kilometer away, currently veiled in the morning haze. It is just before nine, I've got to go.
As every morning, we meet our Egyptian colleagues at the bottom of the pyramid in order to carry up the heavy cases with measuring instrument to the Chevron together. The formation – four stone blocks set against each other diagonally – resembles a gable roof, presumably the former entrance to the Cheops Pyramid. The blocks dissipate the loads to the side, arching over a tunnel that is supposed to be located below.
